Mining

dad has helped asset owners and service providers in the mining sector transform the way that they design and manage complex systems. The scalability of dad is unparallelled. For over 10 years Fortescue has successfully used dad on their key magnetite projects. dad is also used by engineering consultants to manage minor modifications to smaller projects.

Contact us to learn more about how dad can provide solutions for the mining industry.

Exceptional scalability

The scale and complexity of mining projects often results in different teams working from different global locations. With dad all teams work together on work on one centralised database of systems information.

dad enables complex systems to be digitally modelled and managed through the lifecycle. A system model contains all current and historical hardware and software information about objects such as equipment and cables, their connections, and relationships. It establishes a centralized database containing comprehensive system information and serves as the primary tool for everyone involved with the system, from designers to engineers to managers.

Installation is quick and learning how to use dad is simple.

Installation is quick and learning how to use dad is simple. Our clients generally require only a few short training sessions before they’re ready to begin their engineering and management tasks.

dad has helped our clients in the mining sector achieve huge gains in both the efficiency of their engineering and management processes, and in the accuracy of systems design.

Achieve unparallelled fast track delivery using dad.

Some of our clients and projects.

Asset owners and service providers alike have achieved outstanding productivity gains with dad.

Iron Bridge / Canyon-G / Christmas Creek / Eliwana / Solomon, Cloudbreak / Port Operations.
Kasanshi Mine / Cobre Panama Copper Mine / Honeymoon Uranium
VLV Alumina Refinery Feasibility Study
Pilbara Ports Utah Point / Mount Keith Nickel / Anglo Gold Ashanti Australia Sunrise Dam Gold Mine

Benefits of using dad for mining

Centralised and digital systems information accessible for all departments irrespective of physical location.
Unequalled fast-track delivery; enables information to be streamlined and instantly distributed across all disciplines.
Access to the model to view systems information for third party vendors so they can make informed decisions and execute tasks in a timely manner.

…we had some great success with our Electrical Design Software… at North Star Stage 1.  It’s implementation at least halved the design man-hours compared to the traditional drawings approach… The most complementary feedback I heard has come direct from my Contract Engineers, who have since moved on to other projects that utilise traditional methods. Their frustration with errors, time consuming tasks and larger than required design teams speaks volumes about the power of dad… The reality is that it’s the only E&I Design to Operations platform on the market I would consider using from now on.

Adam Ritchie, North Star – EI&C Manager, Fortescue

Fortescue adopted dad on the Solomon Project for all Power, Control and Communications Systems engineering.  dad was used successfully by all our plant contractors and resulted in accurate designs at much lower cost.  It also reduced site rework and commissioning.

Peter Meurs, Former Director Development, Fortescue